Word: gladly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...amount of family unscrambling combined with a marked rise in the marriage rate. Both boost the demand for living quarters, inspiring landlords to raise rents when leases expire and encouraging them to hold out for their asking price instead of accepting the first bid, as they were only too glad to do during the lean years...
...Early up, and glad at my heart to know I am finished with examinations; and, yet, a little sad to quit my studies with my tutor, and to feel I must soon leave these pleasant bowers where I have learned many sweet philosophies. But it being such a fair day, I no more of these thoughts; so, in brave new flannels, all a bubble, to the office where I have not been in a long time. There I did see many new faces and one young one did ask what might my business be. Also I see my desk...
...care, second, to the Canadian Red Cross to aid in future mine disasters. Proud, as was every Briton, of the endurance of the victims and the pluck of the rescuers, King Edward VIII cabled Lord Tweedsmuir, his Governor General in Ottawa: "I am thrilled with admiration. ... I should be glad to have further news of Dr. Robertson and Mr. Scadding...
...paper must have influence with Father Coughlin. Why don't you get him to open up on Roosevelt and the New Deal?" Mr. Huntley is then supposed to have led dismayed Editor Bingay into the office of Republican National Chairman Henry Fletcher, who heartily greeted him with: "Glad indeed to see you, Mr. Bingay. It is always nice to welcome folks from Wisconsin...
Jefferson's terms as President were not particularly happy. Among their achievements that he did not wish posthumously boasted was the Louisiana Purchase, which doubled the U. S.'s territory. His public service over, he was glad to get back to his books and his beloved Monticello. In 1819 he laid out the University of Virginia almost single-handed and down to its last architectural and administrative detail, served as its first Rector. Bad times wasted his patrimony away, but he died without knowing that Monticello would have to be sold. His last years were enlivened...